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PunyParker826 t1_j254sbm wrote

I’m incredibly sorry to hear about your father; I can’t imagine how that feels, especially in the moment.

As for your question, my dad let me see Airplane around age 12-13. I came away “not getting it,” and just thought it was incredibly weird. Of course, a decade later I revisited it and finally realized how genius it was; sometimes our parents have excellent taste and we’re just too dumb to realize it :)

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Kwaann t1_j254yp6 wrote

bro same my dad showed me all of the alien films at 14 and very few films have been able to beat the original 2 they set my standards too high lol

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Accomplished-Tap-222 t1_j255ftz wrote

I got Die Hard on VHS as my first ever VHS. I was 10. Sorry about your loss.

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MartinScorsese t1_j255ti2 wrote

I'm sorry to hear about your father.

My dad let me see Aliens when I was six. It gave me nightmares for years. After that, though, we saw tons of "adult" movies together in the theater when I was a teenager. In particular, I remember Fight Club, Good Will Hunting, American Beauty, and Jackie Brown.

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BigJournalist7960 t1_j2564ic wrote

I was born in 1980 and saw every damn slasher from the 80's. My brother watched The Fly when he was 5 and didnt go to the bathroom alone for months 🤣 Another (very diferent) era, parents today are more aware of the content kids watch.

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wunderkammernika t1_j256gdm wrote

My grandpa showed me Silence of the Lambs when I was like 9 and scared the shit out of me. For years I would get scared whenever I heard American Girl by Tom Petty. Watching movies with him are some of my most cherished childhood memories but that one was a bad call.

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somekglguy t1_j256njo wrote

Growing up, we watched Predator like every week and my father used to let us watch those romantic french movie with full-on sex scene, it was really awkward

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ejpierle t1_j256oe4 wrote

As hard as it is to lose someone, at least you had that great shared passion and all the good memories that came from it. Sorry for your loss.

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Horkersaurus t1_j256uo5 wrote

Army of Darkness has been my favorite movie since I was ~6. Probably too young to watch it lol

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tads73 t1_j257r1e wrote

At 8 I was taken to American Warewolf in London. At 9 Poltergeist. At 8 Ip in Smoke.

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TheClayroo t1_j257xfl wrote

I saw Jaws when I was 5 in the late 80s.

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DeLousedInTheHotBox t1_j2581y7 wrote

My parents were never strict about what I was allowed to see, sure there were things they wouldn't necessarily take me to or show me, but there wasn't really anything they tried to prevent me from seeing on my own volition, they never gave me any rules.

Also sorry to hear about your loss OP, hope that you and your loved ones will get through it.

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casuallymustafa t1_j25852l wrote

My parents are immigrants hailing from a very poor part of Pakistan.

I was born here in the US, a first generation American who grew up in a completely opposite culture than they did.

They never understood the point of going to the movies, so we were never accompanied by them to the theaters.

When I was 7 my cousin took me to see “Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan.” I can’t remember what I thought during the movie, but my parents had no qualms about me going.

Like your typical Asian parents it was “get all the fun out of your system, by 10 you have to start focusing on your future.”

Also, the above statement is not an exaggeration, I had my last birthday party at 10 lol.

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profhnryhiggins t1_j258eu0 wrote

My parents bought me Pretty Woman for Christmas as a 12 year old. Granted, we had cable TV and movie channels in all rooms of the house (my Dad did DVR via the VCR's, before DVR was a thing)...but still, looking back on that I can't help but wonder what they were thinking.

I had a very open option to TV as a kid. The only rule was no nudity allowed if we were watching something together, even though both parents knew that sending us out of the room just meant we'd (older brother and I) just go to our own rooms and watch the rest (unless it was something my Dad taped, in which case we'd just borrow the tape to finish the movie later on). I find it strange that kids today are so sheltered, when I grew up with the understanding that just because I saw something on TV, I didn't have the right/permission to re-create what I saw or speak in the same way. Based on current parenting knowledge, my parents were very wrong...but I can't help but feel that it broadened my appetite for good movies and television.

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bvanbove t1_j258n3i wrote

I was 8-9 when I saw Con Air in theaters with my dad and older (12) brother. Certainly didn’t scar me or anything, but always surprises me when I think back on that.

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ParkingLotFalafel t1_j258on3 wrote

My heartfelt condolences; my father passed away last month. As a young child, he took me to a Dracula movie which resulted in my having to sleep with my neck covered until I was in my twenties. Merry Christmas, dad, I miss you.

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CruisinJo214 t1_j258q4z wrote

I was 10 and on a family road trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. The Patriot starring Mel Gibson had just opened in theatres. I wasn’t ready for the cannon ball taking off a guys leg, but it helped round out the history of what I was seeing the following days.

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mattmortar t1_j258xa2 wrote

When I was 7 I stayed with my grandparents for a week while my parents went on a vacation for their anniversary. My Grandpa showed me almost every Hitchcock film and The Good, the Bad, and the ugly. Awesome man.

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BaRiMaLi t1_j259edp wrote

My sincere condolences. My parents weren't into movies, but my husband and I are and we are raising two movie lovers now. ❤️ It's great that your dad passed his love for movies onto you, and that you bonded over this. You made great memories together! And I think it's beautiful you shared your last movies with him the way you did.

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[deleted] t1_j259j2l wrote

I follow an account on instagram that does scans of old toy catalogs, and they just posted the 80s Rambo toy line. You know, that children’s movie franchise…Rambo?

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Frost312 t1_j259jqb wrote

The Exorcist at 9 years old. Didn't scar me but gave me a really high bar for horror movies not at 32.

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themightydraught t1_j259vxf wrote

Yes, fuck cancer. Took my dad 8 years ago.

So sorry for your loss.

Edit because my mind took off on a memories trip and I forgot to add movies…

Most memorable, and still one of my favorites was/is The Natural

Was a kid in the 80’s, so: Star Wars 4-6 (6 in the theater as part of my birthday present) Rambo movies The Smokey and the Bandit movies Cannonball Run The Police Academy movies The Airplane movies Poltergeist movies Any movie with Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, etc.

And many many more that I can’t recall at the moment.

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2nd2last t1_j25a5gg wrote

My condolences, it sounds like you had a special relationship and that's as important as anything.

My parents were awful but that led to zero supervision so I watched whatever I wanted to. It's a poor trade off, having shitty parents but zero movie restrictions, vs having good parents and some restrictions, but at least in a few areas I came out ahead.

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hxnnabis t1_j25adgn wrote

So sorry for the loss of your dad. My dad showed me the sixth sense when I was about 6 years old home sick. I threw up a few hours after we finished the movie and my dad said “I’m feeling much better now” like the girl who was poisoned 😭

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TyperMcTyperson t1_j25bdy4 wrote

Dad took me to see total recall in the theater when I was 12. Also saw T2 in the theater.

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Bozee3 t1_j25bmy8 wrote

My dad lets me see anything I want, but I'm 46 ymmv.

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SnazzyCitrus t1_j25bwsk wrote

My mother hated that my dad (child of divorce here) let me watch Leprechaun at a young age or my sister letting me watch Freddy Kruger flicks. Then Saving Private Ryan came out and she was like..."Alright you think you can handle trashy gory horror huh. Come on." We went and I was eight years old and my mind was absolutely blown and horrified.

I think it backfired on her though because I just developed an obsession with WWII and movies. But me being able to stomach it lead to her showing me Shindler's List as well as other insightful flicks as a young kid and we still go as often as we can today. I was mature for my age at the time so I assume this wouldn't work in a lot of cases for kids but it helped me develop and enlighten me a bit on the world and history. Dad still let me see the naked lady in Water World too though so win win.

So sorry for your loss and I'm glad cinema and storytelling has helped you and so many people deepen their bond with family and friends. Some of my best memories are of the energy everyone has while discussing/arguing with folks when walking out of a theater. It's one of my favorite feelings in the world.

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kpc45 t1_j25bzy6 wrote

One of 2 movies that my dad ever took me to, South Park bigger louder and uncut at the dollar theatre. I was 10.

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MSeanF t1_j25c9o0 wrote

When I was 10 my parents took me to see the Boys From Brazil.

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SweetCosmicPope t1_j25c9ql wrote

Very sorry to hear about your old man. My dad really like renting movies and going to the movies too, and that's something we did alot of, so I get that. Some of my favorite memories with my dad, too.

As far as your question goes: my mom and dad were really into horror movies. When I was a kid I used to love bragging about how I had seen all of the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies by the time I was 3. And these were actually favorites of mine. I didn't own them, but throughout my childhood I would rent these movies often (as well as other horror movies, both major and low-budget). They were great!

I never really got scared of these movies, but my mom made me watch Child's Play 2 with her when I was maybe 8 or so? And I remember that one scared the living shit out of me.

My uncle was babysitting my cousin and I one time, and he put on a porno movie for that night's entertainment. I was probably 5, and he was about 7. I don't remember much except for watching a girl in spandex give a guy a BJ and me and my cousin laughing our asses off at this movie. This was comedy gold to us because we weren't interested in any of that stuff yet, but a lady with a guy's pee pee in her mouth was fucking hilarious.

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TripleSingleHOF t1_j25cakn wrote

Sorry about Dad.

The first R rated movie I remember my Dad taking me to was Terminator 2, when I was 10 years old. Others I can remember going to see are Under Siege, Demolition Man, Speed, The Usual Suspects, and then he took me to see Pulp Fiction when I was 13, and that changed the way I looked at movies.

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wadad17 t1_j25cfs1 wrote

The Matrix 6 years old.
Dad got our first DVD player and that was one of the movies we got. Didn't know wtf was going on, and the sentinels and the real world setting definitely gave me nightmares, but I absolutely reenacted the fight scenes on our trampoline. Close to one of the oldest memories I can remember.

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The_Evil_Dad_666 t1_j25da30 wrote

I saw Alien in the theater when it came out. I was like 4….

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Truefreak22 t1_j25dgie wrote

Sorry to hear about your Dad. I lost mine when I was 13. I remember watching Die Hard & Die Hard 2 when I was very young, not even sure what age. He wouldn't let me watch Terminator 2 for a little while because of the nuclear bomb scene. I watched it anyway.🙂

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Weirdguy149 t1_j25dhy1 wrote

I was pretty much only watching kid's movies until I became a teenager, and even then movies past PG were pretty rare until I turned 18. All things considered, I think it worked out overall.

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sjm7 t1_j25dka4 wrote

I'm so sorry for your loss...

To your question, my dad took me to see Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when I was barely 3 years old. As a Trekkie, I'm grateful for the nerd cred I can claim from the experience, but as a three-year-old, I walked away with a healthy fear of eels crawling into my ears.

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dead-guero-boy t1_j25driq wrote

Wanted to see Freddy Vs Jason. Mom wouldn’t let me. Went to the skate park at like 6 years old, fucked my finger up, crying every where. Mom felt bad and her solution was “alright, get any movie you want from Hollywood Video”. Chose FvJ, and mom watched it with me, covering my eyes for the nudity scenes. Half way through she went upstairs to shower, “Cover your eyes if any more come up”. Rewound the movie to see the ones I missed instead.

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sarmadness t1_j25e0e0 wrote

Predator, when I was 8. Had nightmares for several weeks.

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Sora1101 t1_j25eh4x wrote

My dad took my best friend and I to see Dodgeball around age 10. Still makes me laugh and seeing it as an adult makes me question my dad's parenting choices but it was awesome at the time.

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kjhwkejhkhdsfkjhsdkf t1_j25f536 wrote

When I was 9 my parents let me watch a 007 movie on ABC, which apparently was the conclusion of an ongoing argument since I was six, with my dad wanting to watch James Bond with me, and my mom being categorically against it. When I was 12 he took me to see Total Recall, which as it turned out was the most violent movie ever made to date.

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Putrid-Conclusion-93 t1_j25f6tl wrote

A Clockwork Orange - I was ten, and we rented it on VHS. My parents knew what it was, warned me, and asked me if I could be mature about it. I was... Mostly... Especially in front of them...

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ilovelucygal t1_j25fstp wrote

Nothing that I can remember, but I remember seeing Saturday Night Fever (1977) in a small Spanish town in the spring of 1978, the little theater was packed, I had just turned 20 and was probably the oldest member of the audience; everyone else was like 12-17. I was surprised that so many teens were there, it was a very raunchy movie.

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OlderNerd t1_j25gc81 wrote

I watched Terminator with my dad when I was in my early teens. I remember being immensely embarrassed during the sex scene

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A_C_B_90 t1_j25h3nr wrote

Everything Arnold Schwarzenegger! Watched Predator at a young age and went to bed shitting myself 😂 it's so vivid I can actually picture it in my mind. It scared the hell out of me 😂

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Environmental_Bat174 t1_j25ha26 wrote

I’m sorry for your loss. I remember watching predator and commando way to early in life. Some of my favorite memories and films today

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Nothingtoseeheremmk t1_j25hihg wrote

My mom showed me We Were Soldiers when I was six. I’ve been a degenerate ever since

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jcole660 t1_j25hnw9 wrote

I saw Color of Night when I was twelve. Didn’t realize what the big deal was until the following year. Yeah.

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FaithlessnessWeak800 t1_j25hptz wrote

My mom took me to Titanic. I cried and begged to go to Grandmas and play… I was 7 and freaked out about the boob and sex scene.

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Gregskis t1_j25i7us wrote

Sorry for your loss. Indeed, fuck cancer. My dad let me and my brother watch Porky’s as 8 and 10 year olds.

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ComprehensiveTurn511 t1_j25ic5y wrote

My parents were really weird when it came to movies. Anything even remotely sexual was a big NOPE, but violence and gore, no matter how gratuitous, was perfectly OK.

Two people kissing would immediately result in the movie being turned off but I could watch something like Predator and I wouldn't hear a peep out of them, even when I was like 7 or 8.

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PHin1525 t1_j25jbmf wrote

Amityville horror...my mom kept saying you're sure you want to see this and I said yeah. I think I was 11 or 12. Spent most of the movie covering my eyes!

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LAROACHA_420 t1_j25k18h wrote

My mother bought me South Park: Bigger, Longer, uncut, when I was in elementary school, probably about 5th grade. I was pretty cool for a while because of that lol

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Curse_ye_Winslow t1_j25kanw wrote

I watched HBO and more specifically, Lethal Weapon at 5 yrs old in the 90s. I more or less understood the plot. I think that says more about the plot than my age at the time lol.

My parents weren't concerned about anything that wasn't outright pornographic. If it was on TV before bedtime, I could watch it.

I was fan of Mel Gibson for a long time as a result, which hurt pretty bad after he came out as a foaming-at-the-mouth racist/misogynist.

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gb2020 t1_j25kpzk wrote

I saw Alien at 12! I didn't sleep for a week after that. But the best thing my dad showed me was Monty Python's Flying Circus starting at age 7. That was revelatory!!

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Maxzhouse t1_j25lveg wrote

My pops let me watch and play damn near anything with the huge exception of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Kill Bills were fine lol. So by the time I actually got to see them they seemed so tame to me I was almost a bit mad. Take care man, your dads always with you.

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MrFluffyhead80 t1_j25m4tn wrote

I was not even a teen when my dad took me to terminator 2 opening weekend.

My parents also took me to see Indiana Jones and Beverly Hills Coo at very young ages.

My dad also watched Porkys with my older brother before he was a teen also.

Pre internet times were wild for not knowing what was in movies

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pi_face_ t1_j25m4vh wrote

My dad got me to watch Being John Malkovich when I was probably too young. I think I was 9? Probably the reason I love dark comedies as an adult?

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paulrenaud t1_j25mvwt wrote

I’m the youngest of 4 by far. There were never any restrictions on what I could and couldn’t watch. That being said. My mom took me to see Robocop in the Theater when I was 7.

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emelbee923 t1_j25nc99 wrote

My dad has always been a sit-in-front-of-the-TV kind of guy. And he would watch what he wanted to watch, regardless of his children being around. He also didn't supervise much of what we watched.

Child's Play, Leprechaun, Terminator and Terminator 2, Judge Dredd, Broken Arrow, Demolition Man, Starship Troopers, The Last Boy Scout, Point Break, Alien and Aliens, True Lies, Eraser, Predator, The Crow, The Rock, Escape from L.A., Con-Air, Face-Off.

If you can think of a major action movie from the 90s, my dad probably let me watch it. All before the age of 12.

But he drew the line at nudity. So I got to see people get limbs hacked off, head's blown up, maimed and killed, but boobs in a shower scene? COVER YOUR EYES!!!

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Polygonyall t1_j25nzzz wrote

my parents were kind of ratings strict but when i was seven I was allowed to stay in the room to play while The Matrix was on so I boasted the next day to everyone at school who would hear that my parenrs let me watch an R rated movie

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ohmygoddude82 t1_j25o61g wrote

I am a huge fan of horror movies, and this definitely came from my dad. I have a special attachment to the original IT because I remember so vividly he let me stay up late to watch it when it aired on tv as a two part mini series. I was 8 years old and I was terrified of everything after watching it. I watched Jaws when I was even younger and was scared to even go in our pool after that.

I miss my dad, and I agree with you. FUCK CANCER.

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ThisIsCreation t1_j25olcz wrote

My parents let me watch everything as long as I didn't go around saying it to other kids who might not be as clued in.

There was uproar by a parent when I was in school, when we were at a kid party one of the kids secretly brought a dvd of the South Park movie, I had seen the movie so many times that I wasn't bothered seeing it. The parent brought up in the meeting how good it was that I didn't watch that sinful movie with the rest of them. My parents told her 'why would he need to sneak around watching it when he has it on dvd at home".

My parents felt that by not letting kids watch things created a separation that would lead to me hiding things and sneaking around.

My brother,who is only a year younger than me, wasn't as clued in so he was allowed to watch stuff within limits.

I know this doesnt work for a lot of people, but I think it was just another aspect that made my relationship with my parents more open.

Now at 28, I have some great memories going to the cinema with my parents watching movies & TV shows, my parents watch the same shows as me (my mother's favourite shows are The Sopranos, Better Call Saul, The Wire, Eastbound & Down & Vice Principals), so there is zero awkwardness when it comes to things on the screen.

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biermaken311 t1_j25opip wrote

My dad made me watch Deliverence when I was bout 8.

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kingsman2023 t1_j25oq3l wrote

Comments on alien heard they are remaking it with all female cast but unfortunately no sigourney

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Joudeh_1996 t1_j25p5ki wrote

My parents let me watch predator 1987 when i was 9

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Brocky70 t1_j25s9xn wrote

I couldn't tell ya the first r rated movie I saw unedited on home video was, but I do know the first R rated movie I saw in theaters was the first blade movie, and that was because my dad asked his buddy "any nudity?" and his friend said "no, and honestly, I don't know why it's rated R"

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Brocky70 t1_j25sg36 wrote

My dad went out of his way to show me some Marx brothers movies.

He talked about marathoning them on New years when he was a child, and they were considered old even back then.

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Dragoninatophat t1_j25suqn wrote

When I was about 10, my mom showed me Godspell and Rocky Horror Picture Show within the same week. Talk about conceptual whiplash. She also passed away from cancer. So yes, Fuck Cancer.

Edited for additional context.

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johnnypurp t1_j25t51g wrote

The fan. Face off. Executive decision. Terminator 2. The bodyguard. Alien. Species. Breakdown. Cliffhanger. I’m pretty sure I was under 10 years old watching these movies lol. My parents weren’t great English speakers. One of the scenes that scarred me the most was the scene where the terminator slices his arm open in T2 and whips out a robot arm lol

Also I really remember die hard 3 and James Bond. I loved bond movies as a kid.

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gszr89 t1_j25t53r wrote

Never had a problem with that, always watched anything I wanted

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muffle64 t1_j25tfmp wrote

I was allowed to watch It when I was 10. Didn't really scare me cause I was already a fan of Tim Curry and practical effects. However, that same year I watched Independence Day and freaked out cause of the jump scares and alien designs

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Brocky70 t1_j25tjo1 wrote

Movies I always associate with my dad:

  1. Dune (the original)
  2. The warriors
  3. Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (just because we had listened to the audio book together on a cross country trip)
  4. Pokemon the first movie, not because he ever saw it, but because he left work early to get tickets for me and my friend to go see it opening day
  5. Saw a suprising amount of MCU movies with him. He wasn't a huge comic geek growing up, but he always had an attachment to Thor's character, so he was always excited to see those
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fumbs t1_j25ua8e wrote

My parents had literally no rules lol. My sister took me at 8 and my brother at 5 to see Friday the 13th in the theater. It was not until recently I noticed it was an R rated movie. This was a pattern not a single experience.

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copaceticzombie t1_j25ucyf wrote

I don't remember how old I was, but I was young and y'all can put it together, but my dad took me to the GI Joe movie. We stayed in the theater after the movie was done to watch the next movie which was Howard the Duck. I remember teenagers telling my dad that it wasn't the best idea. I only remember one of those movies today and it sure as hell isn't GI Joe.

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thebigL33811 t1_j25ut47 wrote

I grew up on Terminator 2. Watched every day when I was 2 years old. Had a T2 themed birthday cake when I was three. Still have the Arnie actions figure that was on top.

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CapMarkoRamius t1_j25uuvc wrote

My first real movies were a double feature of Air Force One and Twister at a drive-in theatre the night before we were leaving on a plane trip to visit cousins in Oklahoma….

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williamswitch t1_j25whjn wrote

Parents decided to take 6 year old me to Saving Private Ryan. Of course couldn’t understand why I kept screaming. Though after all these years I’m pretty sure now my mom was trying to desensitize me to be my dad’s horror movie buddy cause she hated all that stuff.

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jmeesonly t1_j25wixi wrote

>My Dad let me see Alien when I was 13

I was 10 years old when Alien came out. My mom and big sister took me to the theater but said I couldn't see the scary movie, and they sent me into the theater next door to see "Moonraker" while they watched Alien.

As a 10 year old I loved Moonraker! As an adult I can't watch it, it's so stupid, and I love Alien.

My mom and sister thought it was "gross" and didn't like it.

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xman1970 t1_j25wlqh wrote

My parents took me to see Hair (1979) at the age of say 11 or 12. Beverley Deangelo’s tits were, uh, influential. Come to think of it the skinny dipping scene is probably why I have a kink for lost/stolen clothes videos.

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BrokeGoFixIt t1_j25x8so wrote

My dad showed me Stripes when I was around 13-14. He forgot about the bar mud wrestling scene. It comes on, he looks at me immediately and says, "don't tell your mom".

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V0nzell t1_j25xj35 wrote

I think I was 8 or 9 when my dad took me to see Alien. I loved that movie. I remember having a discussion with him driving home. He thought for sure the cat was infected. I said there was no egg for the kitty. We saw so much Sci-Fi together. The only time we did not see the same movie was Dune. I forgot what he went to see with his friend while I was watching Paul become a God.

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the_wkv t1_j25xkyf wrote

I saw Jurassic Park in theaters with my dad at 5 years old. My mom was pissed (parents were divorced) and I was terrified lol.

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MarcHendry t1_j25xogn wrote

the one that freaked me out most as a kid was the melting guy in Robocop.
We had Robocop toys and there was even a cartoon, even though the actual movie was violent as hell.

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raypaw t1_j25yxka wrote

Sorry for your loss, my friend.

I remember when I was 10 or 11 years old, my dad asked me, "what movie would you like to go see?" I said Terminator 2 — rated R — thinking no way he'd say yes. But he did!

A few years later, when I was 13 or 14, he made it a point to spend more time together and we went to see a movie almost every week. Heat, Seven, The Usual Suspects, Casino, 12 Monkeys, Leaving Las Vegas, To Die For, Strange Days, Get Shorty, and Dead Man Walking are a few that spring to mind. We had great taste!

I saved most of my ticket stubs from that time and later framed them as a gift for my dad. I think he still has it on his wall.

We live on different sides of the country now and time together is rare but we still go see movies together. Just before covid, we started going to film festivals together — we did Tribecca and Austin — and hoped to make it an annual tradition. I need to make that happen again while I can; thanks for the reminder that our time is precious.

Here's to all the dads who bonded with their sons over cinema.🍻

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Bolthead44 t1_j2603jl wrote

My mom and stepdad took me to see Alien in the theater. I was 6.

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Mrcollaborator t1_j26089q wrote

I saw a lot of fucked up 80s films in the early nineties when I was around 5 to 7 years old. Things like Robocop, Terminator, Full Metal Jacket, several gangster films.

My dad always just said the blood isn’t real, it’s ketchup and that was that.

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patarack t1_j2610j8 wrote

When I was 5 my dad read me a children’s version of the Last of the Mohicans, and then afterwards rented the movie.

The heart removal scene and the burning alive scene were scarred into my memory.

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Oldefinger t1_j262a2v wrote

When Jaws released in 1975 my parents took myself and my little sister to the drive-in to see it. I was 10. During the climax, with Quint meeting his fate, my mum tried to make my sister and I lie down in the back seat and cover our eyes, but I wouldn’t do it, and my dad stuck up for me.

Of course it turned out my mum was kind of right, but it was too late by the end of the movie. The child mortality scene earlier on was what kind of warped my brain. My mum ended up getting pretty concerned when I kept drawing pictures of people being eaten by sharks, but it was just me processing the stuff I’d seen. Ultimately it ended up with me developing a lifelong fascination with sharks and the ocean, and all that obsessive drawing was actually an important part of my development as an artist. All because of a little bit of ultra-mild childhood trauma.

That said, I do think every kid is different, and parents should take the responsibility of monitoring what their kids see and consume very seriously. Not just because some kids are more sensitive than others, but also because it’s important to cultivate empathy in children, and repeated exposure to depictions of violence and death can wear that down.

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Responsible_Rain830 t1_j262l2x wrote

I think Stripes was probably the first R-rated movie my dad let me watch. Mainly because much of the movie was filmes in my hometown and places we had been to when I was growing up.

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bolshevik_rattlehead t1_j2635e5 wrote

I was probably 9 and my pops got me a copy of Terminator 2, I wore that vhs out in like a month! One time at the video store I told him I wanted to rent a scary movie so he rented The Shining, I was probably 12? Maybe 13? Scared the god damn hell out of me. Was terrified of seeing those twins down my hallway for what felt like a year.

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something_python t1_j263m72 wrote

My dad died about 13 years ago, when I was 21. I still think about me and him sitting watching The Fifth Element together on my uncles projector screen. Good Times.

I'd say it gets easier mate, but the truth is I miss the old man every day.

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miggym24 t1_j265nh1 wrote

My dad had a collectors Scarface dvd set in the house and never let me touch it. Watched it some years back at 25~ ish and is now one of my favorite movies!

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2BFrank69 t1_j267xhu wrote

Pulp Fiction when I was 11 in the theatre. The gimp scene confused me 😂

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OneOverX t1_j26aip6 wrote

I saw Braveheart, Starship Troopers, Carnosaur, Full Metal Jacket, and Aliens / Alien 3 between the ages of 6 and 10

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2hats4bats t1_j26app8 wrote

The South Park Movie, uncle fuckers

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Fiascoe t1_j26cdv2 wrote

I got to see the sex romp "My First Turn on" when i was in grade 5. Yes when i was like 10. It was my birthday party. Me and my buddies watching that was next level. It taught us sex secrets like that you should trick a girl into touching your dick by hiding it in popcorn and that a girl will fall in love with you if you sneak your cum into her food...... For young and horny pre-internet boys it was pretty fucking awesome.

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Chrizilla_ t1_j26d09k wrote

My Mom has always been a huge movie fan and she wasn’t going to let child rearing stop that. Watching Signs in theaters royally fucked me up and we had to sneak into master of disguise to calm me down. Good times!

Edit: sorry for your loss, OP. Always hold onto those happy memories.

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HoneyBunnery t1_j26d3yr wrote

I grew up on cult classic horror films thanks to my dad. Bedtime stories were told by the likes of Stephen King, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, etc.

I think the only movie he ever regretted renting was Don't Be A Menace

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HoleCogan t1_j26e2az wrote

I used to spend the night at my best friend's house a lot. Her mom would stay up all night smoking in the living room and watching movies. She would let us stay up with her, but we'd watch whatever movies she was watching: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Blazing Saddles, etc. I was 7. Meanwhile when this same friend came to my house she wasn't allowed to watch Disney movies because of the magic. Lol.

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nicless t1_j26ggec wrote

When I was young, my dad would sit me down and make me watch movies he thought were classics. Or movies he thought I should see. In what can only be described as one of the greatest gifts a father can give his 12 year old son, one day we watched "The Kentucky Fried Movie."

Now, if you've never seen this movie it's from 1977 directed by John Landis and written by the Zucker Brothers. It's a sketch comedy movie, mostly. The part that will 100% always stand out for me was a sketch of a mock movie trailer that was for the film, "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble." It is exactly what you think, and the reason that the Kentucky Fried Movie has a rating of "Severe" in Sex and Nudity on IMDB.

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Doppelfrio t1_j26hikw wrote

The first PG-13 movie I watched was IJ Crystal Skull. I was 13. I don’t remember when I watched my first R rated movie, but it was a decent amount of time later, but before I was 17.

I did watch plenty of those borderline PG-13 movies though like Clue and the other Indiana Jones movies, just off the top of my head.

Edit: almost forgot Temple of Doom is PG-13, so that would actually be the first one. I was probably 10 but I don’t remember exactly

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Comic_Book_Reader t1_j26hom3 wrote

My parents somehow let me watch Angels & Demons on TV, which, even with some trims for a PG-13, has...

I was like 6, 7 or 8, and I was somehow not traumatized and scarred for life.

Actually a pretty good movie. The Da Vinci Code is OK, and I Inferno was... URGH! I could not understand what was even happening because the movie has constant handheld shakey cam during the action scenes. By the time we reached the climax, here and here if you even care, I had literally stopped caring and just wanted it to end. My mom hated the movie because the plot is about a virus that'll be released, and we watched it during the start of Covid. My dad was indifferent like he tends to be.

Also, fun little story about my mom: When she was about a teen, her dad had an 8mm projector, and film rolls that were 20-ish minute long trims of movies like Superman (this was probably her favourite), The Wizard of Oz, and others. Long story short, she knew how to put in the film and all that, so she snuck up on his room to a box of unlabeled rolls, grabbed one, and prepped it. To her horror it was a scene involving Sigourney Weaver and a chestburster.

For about 25 years she didn't know if it was Alien or Aliens. So when we watched both of them, Alien one weekend and Aliens the next, we got the answer. It was Aliens.

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sysaphiswaits t1_j26ifsf wrote

I just found out last weekend my 17 yr old and 14 yr old just saw American Psycho. I think the 14 yr old is too young!

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Comic_Book_Reader t1_j26iod9 wrote

Replying to Doppelfrio (#1,163,880)

Temple of Doom is PG. It, along with the Spielberg produced Gremlins, was so intense and violent (take a wild guess which scene people brought up) Spielberg proposed the PG-13 to the MPAA, as Temple of Doom and Gremlins were too strong for a PG but too light for an R. They're both PG.

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doctoranonrus t1_j26jap3 wrote

My dad didn't really believe in the R-Rating lol so:

  • A bunch of Scorsese Films
  • The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
  • Once Upon a Time in America & West
  • Dusk Til Dawn
  • Terminator, True Lies, Total Recall
  • The Exorcist I & III
  • The Die Hards
  • The Godfathers
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mistermatth t1_j26k7am wrote

My dad took me to see Terminator 2: Judgement Day in theaters. I was like 6 lol

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Skinnee11 t1_j26kehr wrote

Sorry about your dad. Fuck cancer indeed.

To your question, I didn’t have any restrictions growing up whatsoever and am so very thankful for it. Clearly I didn’t understand some (if not most) of what I was watching thematically, but because it wasn’t taboo and I didn’t have to sneak around to watch R rated movies I was able to ask my parents questions to better understand.

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We1rdStuff t1_j26khjy wrote

My dad rented me Ichi the Killer when I was 13. Yeah that was a huge mistake

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Gorevoid t1_j26mglo wrote

I was even younger when my dad rented us stuff like Robocop and Die Hard. At 10 he started taking me to see stuff like Total Recall in the theater. I think the last thing we saw together before the end was Matrix 3.

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radioactive_accident t1_j26mi7d wrote

American pie, wasn't their fault entirely, they were watching it and I couldn't sleep so I got something to eat while they were in the kitchen and got a full frontal boob shot. I was like seven.

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